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Torture is never acceptable. Sometimes it is necessary to kill another human being, but torture degrades their very humanity.

Punishing people can be done by stripping them of their freedoms, their property, and most of their civil rights. However, kiilling people should be done only when necessary (like police shooting an armed gunman, or soldiers killing enemy combatants in a warzone). It is never necessary to kill a man in a cage, that is about revenge, and it's sick.

Torture is never acceptable. Sometimes it is necessary to kill another human being, but torture degrades their very humanity.

Punishing people can be done by stripping them of their freedoms, their property, and most of their civil rights. However, kiilling people should be done only when necessary (like police shooting an armed gunman, or soldiers killing enemy combatants in a warzone). It is never necessary to kill a man in a cage, that is about revenge, and it's sick.

I don't agree with state-sanctioned killing or state-sanctioned torture, at all.

There are times when killing is necessary, but not when a person is already in a cage.

The annoying part is how you make criminals out to be victims. There is an easy way to keep off death row and keep yourself out of prison. Try not acting like an animal and you won't have to endure the hostile prisons of the US. Taxpayers should not be footing the bill of these violent criminals. They should be put to death in a manner that relates to the way they took a life.

It's sickening how you people come to the aid of violent criminals and pedophiles...but are quick to defend the right to butcher an innocent baby.

The punishment for doing crimes is being stripped of your freedoms, being unable to move around, having every moment of your day dictated to you rather than your own choice, being unable to live with your family, all of the simple joys of life, and the very basic component of being in control of yourself are taken away. There's no need to torture people on top of that.

Making prisons into torture factories is not only sick and immoral, but it causes more problems than it solves. You get people who go into prison for things like theft or drunk driving, and end up turning into sociopaths because they were raped or abused inside. Torturing people just for vengeance is sick, it's wrong.

The other aspect of prison is to separate potentially dangerous people from the rest of society, which even the nicest swedish prisons do perfectly effectively.

Originally Posted by Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

The annoying part is how you make criminals out to be victims. There is an easy way to keep off death row and keep yourself out of prison. Try not acting like an animal and you won't have to endure the hostile prisons of the US. Taxpayers should not be footing the bill of these violent criminals. They should be put to death in a manner that relates to the way they took a life.

This isn't Saudi Arabia. That is sick.

It's sickening how you people come to the aid of violent criminals and pedophiles...but are quick to defend the right to butcher an innocent baby.

Who is "you people"?

Originally Posted by Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.